New MGCAMB tests of gravity with CosmoMC and Cobaya
Zhuangfei Wang, Seyed Hamidreza Mirpoorian, Levon Pogosian, Alessandra Silvestri, Gong‐Bo Zhao
Abstract
Abstract We present a new version of MGCAMB, a patch for the Einstein-Boltzmann solver CAMB for cosmological tests of gravity. New features include a new cubic-spline parameterization allowing for a simultaneous reconstruction of μ , Σ and the dark energy density fraction Ω X as functions of redshift, the option to work with a direct implementation of μ , Σ (instead of converting to μ , γ first), along with the option to test models with a scalar field coupled only to dark matter, and the option to include dark energy perturbations when working with w ≠ -1 backgrounds, to restore consistency with CAMB in the GR limit. This version of MGCAMB comes with a Python wrapper to run it directly from the Python interface, an implementation in the latest version of CosmoMC, and can be used with Cobaya.